n seem to consent that it
cannot: and this, I think, not because--understanding love as they
do, with all its wonder and wild desire--they would conduct it to
life-long bliss if they could, but simply because they cannot fit it
into this muddy vesture of decay. They may dismiss us in the end
with peace and consolation:

And calm of mind, all passion spent.

And we know or have known that of its impulse among us lesser folk it
holifies and populates this world. But our own transience qualifies
it. Only when love here claims to be above the world--"All for Love,
and the World well Lost"--we feel that its exorbitance must wreck it
here and now, however it may shine hereafter. That is why all the
great legends of love--the tale of Tristan and Iseult, for instance--
are unhappy legends: as that is why they still tease us.

I hope these remarks will not be deemed too pompous for the preface
to a story in which true love is crossed by a soldier's sense of
honour. The theme is a variant on a great commonplace: and,
following my habit, I let the incidents and characters have their own
way without the author's comment or interference.

Q.

CONTENTS.

Chapter

PREFACE.

I. MALBROUCK S'EN VA-T'EN GUERRE.

II. A BIVOUAC IN THE FOREST.

III. TICONDEROGA.

IV. THE VOYAGEURS.

V. CONTAINS THE APOLOGUE OF MANABOZHO'S TOE.

VI. BATEESE.

VII. THE WATCHER IN THE PASS.

VIII. THE FARTHER SLOPE.

IX. MENEHWEHNA SETTLES ACCOUNTS.

X. BOISVEYRAC.

XI. FATHER LAUNOY HAS HIS DOUBTS.

XII. THE WHITE TUNIC.

XIII. FORT AMITIE.

XIV. AGAIN THE WHITE TUNIC.

XV. THE SECOND DESPATCH.

XVI. THE DISMISSAL.

XVII. FRONTENAC SHORE.

XVIII. NETAWIS.

XIX. THE LODGES IN THE SNOW.

XX. THE REVEILLE.

XXI. FORT AMITIE LEARNS ITS FATE.

XXII. DOMINIQUE.

XXIII. THE FLAGSTAFF TOWER.

XXIV. THE FORT SURRENDERS.

XXV. THE RAPIDS.

XXVI. DICK'S JUDGEMENT.

XXVII. PRES-DE-VILLE.

EPILOGUE--I.--HUDSON RIVER.

II.--THE PHANTOM GUARD.

FORT AMITY.

CHAPTER I.

MALBROUCK S'EN VA-T'EN GUERRE.

"So adieu, Jack, until we meet in Quebec! You have the start of
us, report says, and this may even find